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Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

이어 저의 사생활은 건드리지 않았으면 좋겠다며 이 일이 이렇게 커질지는 몰랐다고 했다. 조회수 92536 어떤 팬이 이이경이랑 주고받은 카톡이랑 미공개 사진들 캡처해서. 기타 국내 드라마 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. 조회수 92536 어떤 팬이 이이경이랑 주고받은 카톡이랑 미공개 사진들 캡처해서.

내용 신체 사진 요구, 욕설성희롱음담패설 등 19금 사생활 폭로.

지난 20일 온라인 커뮤니티 디시, 더쿠 등 사이트를 비롯해 인스타, 트위터x에는 배우 이이경이 한 여자에게 성적인 카톡과 디엠을 보냈다는 가짜뉴스가.. 12월 17일, 폭로자는 해당 트윗과 직전 트윗을 통해 이이경과 나눴던 dm 중 자신이 썼던 부분만이 보이게 된 녹화된 짧은 영상과 새로운 게시글을 게시.. 이경배우님이라는 이름으로 저장된 카톡 캡처도 계속 보여주고 있죠..

진짜 계정이라고라는 글과 함께 영상을 게재했다. 19금 카톡 사생활 다 공개된 이이경 사실무근이라 해명. 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 이이경. 국내방송 카테고리로 분류된 기타 국내 드라마 갤러리입니다, 이 사건으로 이이경은 여러 인기 예능에서 하차하게 되면서 팬들과 대중의 관심이 집중되고 있습니다.

조회수 92536 어떤 팬이 이이경이랑 주고받은 카톡이랑 미공개 사진들 캡처해서, 이이경카톡논란 배우 이이경 사생활 논란과 관련해 이번에 배우 이이경을 둘러싼 사생활 루머도 그래요, 글 작성자는 이이경 배우와 실제로 연락을.

이 사건으로 이이경은 여러 인기 예능에서 하차하게 되면서 팬들과 대중의 관심이 집중되고 있습니다.

이어 저의 사생활은 건드리지 않았으면 좋겠다며 이 일이 이렇게 커질지는 몰랐다고 했다. Com › board › view이이경 폭로글 작성자 일이 이렇게 커질지 몰랐다 기타 국내 드, 진짜 계정이라고라는 글과 함께 영상을 게재했다. 배우 이이경에게 성적인 문자메시지를 받았다고 폭로한 여성이 폭로에 앞서 이이경 측에 돈 요구를 한 사실이 있다고 인정했다, Com › clipnews › 224081124536이이경 폭로 논란 총정리 사생활 루머부터 하차까지 진실은 무엇인가, Com › board › viewq&ai ai로 조작했다&mldr.

지난 20일, 이이경의 실체를 폭로한다는 a씨의 블로그가 각종 sns와 온라인 커뮤니티에 퍼지며 큰 화제가 됐다.. 다만 공개된 내용은 짜깁기된 것이며 전체 맥락은 실제로 다소 달랐다는 주장도 나왔다.. 이경배우님이라는 이름으로 저장된 카톡 캡처도 계속 보여주고 있죠.. 2025년 10월 중순, 한 온라인 커뮤니티에 이이경 찐모습 노출합니다라는 제목의 폭로글이 게재되었습니다..

다만 그는 폭로 내용이 거짓은 아니라고 선을 그었다.

유튜버 이진호는 21일 유튜브에 올린 영상에서 이이경의 소속사 관계자를 인용해 이같이 주장했다, 글 작성자는 이이경 배우와 실제로 연락을. 그러나 해당 게시물은 곧 정보통신망 이용촉.

배우 이이경 사생활 루머 폭로자가 추가 증거를 공개하며 진실 공방을 이어가고 있다, 이이경 설문 논란된 스타들 이미지 세탁 그만 해줬으면 하는 프로그램은. 온라인 커뮤니티에 ‘이이경 찐모습 폭로글’이 올라오며 논란이 확산된 가운데, 해당 글의 내용과 현재까지의 확인된 사실을 정리했습니다. 한국말 잘 못하고 사기꾼도 아니고 진짜 독일인이다며 일하는 중이라 제대로 읽지는 못 했지만 오해는 없었으면 좋겠고 나의 사생활이든 뭐든 건들지 않았으면 좋겠다.

Q&ai Ai로 조작했다 이이경 사생활 폭로 사건 정리.

기타 국내 드라마 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. A씨는 21일 ‘증거’라며 새로운 글을 올리기도 했다, A씨는 이이경과 나눴던 sns dm 다이렉트 메시지와 개인 메시지 내용을 모두 캡처해 공개했으나, 논란이 커지자 자신의 최초 폭로글을 삭제했다, 다만 공개된 내용은 짜깁기된 것이며 전체 맥락은 실제로 다소 달랐다는 주장도 나왔다. A씨의 폭로는 이번이 처음이 아니었다는 사실도 밝혔다.

깜피 캐릭터 지난 20일 온라인 커뮤니티 디시, 더쿠 등 사이트를 비롯해 인스타, 트위터x에는 배우 이이경이 한 여자에게 성적인 카톡과 디엠을 보냈다는 가짜뉴스가. 한국말 잘 못하고 사기꾼도 아니고 진짜 독일인이다며 일하는 중이라 제대로 읽지는 못 했지만 오해는 없었으면 좋겠고 나의 사생활이든 뭐든 건들지 않았으면 좋겠다. Com › board › view이이경 폭로글 작성자 일이 이렇게 커질지 몰랐다 기타 국내 드. 이경배우님이라는 이름으로 저장된 카톡 캡처도 계속 보여주고 있죠. 19금 카톡 사생활 다 공개된 이이경 사실무근이라 해명. 김희선 누드

나는 찬미 의대 2025년 10월 중순, 한 온라인 커뮤니티에 이이경 찐모습 노출합니다라는 제목의 폭로글이 게재되었습니다. 연합뉴스 배우 이이경의 사생활 루머를 폭로한 여성이 22일 인공지능 ai으로 조작했다며 돌연 사과했다. 다만 공개된 내용은 짜깁기된 것이며 전체 맥락은 실제로 다소 달랐다는 주장도 나왔다. 19금 카톡 사생활 다 공개된 이이경 사실무근이라 해명했지만, 폭로자가 내놓은 또 다른 게시글에 머리가 띵하다. 이이경카톡 이이경논란 이이경카톡대화내용 이이경사생활논 이이경카톡 이이경논란 이이경카톡대화내용 이이경사생활논 0 인쇄. 김윾머 얼평

나의 히어로 아카데미아 투명 해당 기사는 그록을 활용해 작성되었습니다. 다만 공개된 내용은 짜깁기된 것이며 전체 맥락은 실제로 다소 달랐다는 주장도 나왔다. 해당 기사는 그록을 활용해 작성되었습니다. 다만 공개된 내용은 짜깁기된 것이며 전체 맥락은 실제로 다소 달랐다는 주장도 나왔다. 온라인 커뮤니티에 ‘이이경 찐모습 폭로글’이 올라오며 논란이 확산된 가운데, 해당 글의 내용과 현재까지의 확인된 사실을 정리했습니다. 김수식 한의대

깐숙 레이디스 본명 그러나 해당 게시물은 곧 정보통신망 이용촉. 내용 신체 사진 요구, 욕설성희롱음담패설 등 19금 사생활 폭로. 연합뉴스배우 이이경의 사생활을 폭로한 영상이 삭제됐다. 조회수 92536 어떤 팬이 이이경이랑 주고받은 카톡이랑 미공개 사진들 캡처해서. 이는 이이경과의 대화 내용을 조작한 것이 아니냐는 의혹에 대한 해명을 위해 올린 것으로 보였습니다.

나노 바나나 검열 우회 A씨는 이이경과 나눴던 sns dm 다이렉트 메시지와 개인 메시지 내용을 모두 캡처해 공개했으나, 논란이 커지자 자신의 최초 폭로글을 삭제했다. 배우 이이경가 지난 1월 15일 오후 서울 용산구 cgv용산아이파크몰에서 열린 영화 히트맨2 언론시사회에서 취재진의 질문을 듣고 있다. 다만 공개된 내용은 짜깁기된 것이며 전체 맥락은 실제로 다소 달랐다는 주장도 나왔다. 배우 이이경에게 성적인 문자메시지를 받았다고 폭로한 여성이 폭로에 앞서 이이경 측에 돈 요구를 한 사실이 있다고 인정했다. 연합뉴스배우 이이경의 사생활을 폭로한 영상이 삭제됐다.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.